Frances Baldwin

Brief Life History of Frances

When Frances Baldwin was born about 1820, in Lusk, Pope, Illinois, United States, her father, Andrew Baker Baldwin, was 33 and her mother, Betsey Hutchens, was 31. She married Rev. Richard Fulkerson Jr. on 21 January 1841, in Golconda, Pope, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Pope, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 19 April 1876, in Raum, Pope, Illinois, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Golconda, Pope, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rev. Richard Fulkerson Jr.
1819–1900
Frances Baldwin
1820–1876
Marriage: 21 January 1841
John Lewis Fulkerson
1840–
Charles Henry Fulkerson
1844–1909
William Green Fulkerson
1846–1871
Martha Ann Fulkerson
1848–1933
James Fredrick Fulkerson
1850–1896
Mary Jane Fulkerson
1852–1880
Williamson Floyd Fulkerson
1854–
Juliette Fulkerson
1857–1883
Orillo Catharine Fulkerson
1860–1924
Joshua Allen Fulkerson
1862–1949

Sources (10)

  • Frances Fulkerson in household of Richard Fulkerson, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Francis Baldwin Fulkerson, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Baldon in entry for James K P Newton and Juliette Fulkerson, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1832 · Black Hawk War

"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.

Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.

History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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